Hayek went to Freiburg in 1962, the same year as Buchanan and Tullock published Calculus of Consent. I still think it plausible that in 1978 looking back that he might still have thought of Tullock as [the one] in South Carolina. I wouldn't get too fixed on the year 1978. On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Irwin (Bud) Collier < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Gordon Tullock worked at the University of South Carolina until 1962. > > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Robert Leeson <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > >> >> In 1978, Hayek stated >> >> >> >> I am rather hoping that these ideas are now spreading. Of course, I think >> the main thing is that there are economists who are working outside their >> fields, like Jim Buchanan and [the one] in South Carolina, and some of the >> people working at UCLA. What I said before--that you cannot be a good >> economist except by being more than an economist-- I think is being >> recognized by more and more of the economists. This narrow specialization, >> particularly of the mathematical economists, is, I believe, going out. >> >> >> >> Hayek plagiarized material from John C. Calhoun: but what in South >> Carolina is Hayek referring to? >> >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > Prof. Irwin Collier, Ph.D. > John-F.-Kennedy Institute for North American Studies > Freie Universität Berlin > -- Prof. Irwin Collier, Ph.D. John-F.-Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Freie Universität Berlin